Classic bakery still making cakes, cookies and pastries without compromising quality. They have an amazing variety of goods considering the space they have. You are surrounded by bakery goodness when you walk in - butter cookies and breads on the left, filled pastries ahead and cakes and a plethora of other baked goods such as rugulach, meringue and brownies on the right. There must be 60 different items on display in a space the size of my bedroom.\r
The best thing are the butter cookies. We were psyched when we first saw them because they looked like ""real"" butter cookies from the classic italian bakeries such as Mona Lisa in Brooklyn. To our delight, they were perfect! They are tender, crisp and have that great buttery flavor as they melt in your mouth. So good, I have the urge to shove the whole cookie in my mouth instead of risking the cookie breaking up if I bite it. \r
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The owner is there every day wrapping up every piece of her fantastic work in a box with string. Bless her heart for dedicating herself to her craft - consistent, no nonsense desserts serving the neighborhood for a lifetime.\r
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I give this place 5 stars for some the best authentic butter cookies I have found in manhattan. If you are in the neighborhood, stop in and give them a try. I am dying to try one of the frosting moster/frog things I see in the windows.
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